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Autotools
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Autotools

by John Calcote
July 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
360 pages
11h 12m
English
No Starch Press
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Apple Platforms and Mac OS X

The Macintosh operating system has been POSIX compliant since 2002 when Mac OS version 10 (OS X) was released. OS X is derived from NeXTSTEP/OpenStep, which is based on the Mach kernel, with parts taken from FreeBSD and NetBSD. As a POSIX-compliant operating system, OS X provides all the infrastructure required by the Autotools. The problems you'll encounter with OS X will mostly likely involve Apple's user interface and package-management systems, both of which are specific to the Mac.

The user interface presents the same issues you encounter when dealing with X Windows on other Unix platforms, and then some. The primary difference is that X Windows is used exclusively on most Unix systems, but Mac OS has its own graphical ...

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